[tied] Re: Vanir,etc.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
<marcomoretti69@...> wrote:

> > Or it is the kingdom of Vani. That was not so difficult?
>
> If your theory were true, we should find some Kartvelian substratum
> items in Germanic. But we found nothing similar! I analyzed in

depth

> hundreds of bizarre non-IE Germanic roots, succeeding only few

times

> in getting some useful matchup with something else. Even Basque
> comparison is not productive. So I dismiss any idea of connecting
> Vanir with something Kartvelian.

If anything, I would think it more likely that Scythians who
had been around the region of lake Van had migrated to N Europe, as
archaeological evidence shows, and that this would explain why the
Jews designated N Europe as "Ashkenaz." But even this is highly
unlikely.

-Michael

>
> Marco